HINTS FOR STOCKMEN.
Improve the pastures. Epsom’s salts are the best physic for the eow. There should be ample pasture for the swine. Better drive the horse last up hill than down hill. Always feed any animal light when changing 1 feed. When the frog of the horse’s foot becomes hard, use poultice. Build the swine pen so as to facilitate easy handling of the swine. Pine tar may be smeared over the nose of the sheep for snuffles. .Cabbages can be fed profitably to swine, and they are a cheap feed. Powdered charcoal is an absorbent of gases in the stable or in the animal. As a rule it does not pay to attempt to cure a horse of vieiousness. Get rid of it.
If your blacksmith puts a red-hot shoe on your horse’s foot, go to a blacksmith that won’t.
It is just as important to carefully select the breeding stock for mules as it is for horses.
If your horse cribs, sell him, ds the ad-„ vice of a writer; and our a_dvi£e>, buy such a horse,.
gffen shies because its eyesight is not perfect and it mistakes the character of objects. A little “spring” medicine is good for the horse. A dose of May apple root will clean; out the animal.
Begin to “break” the calf, as well as the colt, early, that is, accustom it to being handled and to being tied. If the hogs are confined only during the fattening process, it may be much smaller than if they are confined fora longer period.—Western Plowman.
Functions of Live Stock. The true function of live stock on the average farm should be to consume all the food products raised and return to the owner a fair, not an extravagant, price for the food consumed; to convert coarse material into higher-priced products of the fertilizing materials consumed. If his live stock pays for the food consumed 1 the farmer has made what would be considered a reasonable profit in other lines of business—the increased fertility of his land is of itself a handsome profit, and one which is quite often, entirely overlooked. —
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3610, 14 December 1905, Page 4
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356HINTS FOR STOCKMEN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3610, 14 December 1905, Page 4
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